Chapter 33: Yongxin Camp

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In the Yongning Mountains, where the mountains are high and the roads are steep, an army marches through the lush bamboo forests. In June, Jiangxi was already very hot, the scorching sun was in the sky, and the sun was very hot, but the bamboo forests in the Yongning Mountains gave this army a good shelter.

This army did not have any supplies and support, because he was alone.

Alone, we are truly alone!

Jiang Zhiping said this to himself more than once. Compared with the Western Expeditionary Army, the lone army that entered the Yongxin Mountain Area was more lonely and helpless than the Western Expeditionary Army. The Western Expeditionary Army can get the support of the Kuidong Righteous Army to the east, and to the south, it can also get the secret help of the Pingxi Palace, which has a secret agreement with the Qiongzhou Army. But what about this army in the Yongxin Mountains? They have nothing, all around them are enemies!

Yongning is a county seat below Ji'an, which is later known as Jinggangshan. It is located at the junction of Hunan and Jiangxi provinces. It was far away from Jiangnan and could not get any supplies from the Ming army in Jiangnan; It is also far away from Jinxia and cannot be supported by Zheng Jiajun; It was cut off by Guangdong when it went to Qiongzhou here, and it was not supported by the Qiongzhou army.

Changsha in the northwest, Nanchang and Wuchang in the north, Ganzhou and Chaoshan in the south, Fuzhou and Jianchang in the east, were important towns controlled by the Qing court on all sides, and heavy troops of the Qing army were stationed.

It can be said that this lone army is deeply surrounded by the Qing army!

Jiang Zhiping was a little dissatisfied when he received such an order at the beginning, he felt that Wang Xinyu had put himself in danger. A lone army that has been separated from the main force and has no backup may be wiped out by the enemy at any time. Although Wang Xinyu taught Jiang Zhiping a few tricks, such as breaking the whole into pieces and using the mountainous terrain to deal with the enemy; There are many mountain bandits in the Yongxin area, which can be co-opted; Local poverty. There are few landlords, and they can find ways to improve the lives of the people. However, Jiang Zhiping was still very worried that he would go deep alone, and once he was surrounded and suppressed by the Qing army from all sides, he would face the end of the entire army.

With a mere strength of more than 5,000 people, if it is surrounded by more than 100,000 Qing troops, it will really be difficult to fly.

After the defeat of the Ming army in Jiangnan and the Qing army, this lone army that was ready to go deep behind the enemy took advantage of the chaos of the Qing army to advance all the way to the west.

Because the destination of this army was Yongxin, Gu was named Yongxin Battalion.

In order to fight behind enemy lines, the Yongxin Army shaved its hair and kept braids. Disguised as a Qing army. Most of the soldiers of this army were the people under the original Qing court and some of the people of various ethnic groups in the south, who had already shaved their hair before, and in order to be able to defeat the Qing army and expel the Tartars, they were not so resistant to shaving their hair.

The Yongxin Army, under the banner of Hunan Green Camp, passed through Huizhou, Shexian, and Xiuning all the way through the valley between western Zhejiang and southern Anhui, and entered Jiangxi. In order to avoid startling the snake, the Yongning army neither blatantly attacked the city, nor deceived the Qing army's county seat. When passing through the above-mentioned county seats. The magistrate and the local gentry came out to greet the "Wang Shi", Jiang Zhiping did not take the opportunity to kill the county order to seize the county seat, but appropriately asked the local gentry for a little food and salary, and continued to hurry.

At that time, communications were extremely backward. Qing court officials did not know when an army would pass through their territory, and when they saw an army wearing Qing army uniforms and shaved hair and braids, they thought it was a court army, plus there were some real Qing soldiers in the Yongning army. They were all Qing soldiers who had been captured before, and they could only honestly follow what the Ming army told them under the coercion of the Ming saber, which made the local officials believe it even more.

The situation of the year. How could Qing court officials have imagined that a Ming army would appear in their hinterland? No one would think that the Ming army had the courage to go deeper. Alone in the depths, isn't that sending people to death?

The Yongxin army entered the territory of Jiangxi, passing through Jingdezhen, Leping, Anren, Fuzhou and other cities, and the local magistrates and magistrates came out with gentry to greet the "Wang Shi", Jiang Zhiping did not take the opportunity to seize the county seat, but continued to disguise the Qing army, took some food and salary, and continued to hurry. Even Jingdezhen and Fuzhou, which are so rich, can take the opportunity to enter the city as long as the Yongxin Army tears off the camouflage and kills Zhizhou outside the city. But Jiang Zhiping resisted the impulse, just casually asked for a little food, and continued to hurry without even entering the city.

Seeing that the "Wang Shi" did not enter the city, but just took a little something and left, these local "parent officials" also breathed a sigh of relief, although they saw that the other party was the "Wang Shi" of the imperial court, but the local "parent officials" were very afraid of the guest army. If the local soldiers enter the city, they will not harm the local people, and if the guest army enters the city, the local people will definitely suffer.

At that time, the military discipline of the Qing army was not very good, and they were all blackmailing the people on other people's territory, and even killing and robbing people, anyway, it was not their hometown, it didn't matter what the disaster was, even if they were already obedient people of the imperial court, they had to be harmed.

Even in the Ming Dynasty, most of the Ming army did not have good military discipline when passing through other people's territory. As the saying goes, bandits are like combs, and soldiers are like washing, and this is the truth, and most of the armies at that time were harmful to the people.

Seeing the departure of the "Wang Division", the local "parents and officials" all thought that the main general of this "Wang Division" had a good way of leading the troops, had strict military discipline, and could restrain their own soldiers, so they bowed their hands to the back of the "Wang Division" and thanked them.

It's just that the "parents and officials" never dreamed that this army in the past was not a "Wang Division", but a Ming army.

Getting a certain amount of supplies from the towns they passed by, although not much, was enough for the army to eat and drink along the way. The Yongxin army arrived in Fuzhou, crossed the Ganjiang River by boat, crossed the Ganzhong Plain, entered the hilly area, and headed straight for Ji'an.

When the Yongxin Army arrived in Ji'an, considering that the Hunan Green Battalion of more than 5,000 people wanted to return to Hunan, not to go to the Ganzhong Plain, but to go through the difficult hills of southern Jiangnan, there were too many doubts, so Jiang Zhiping divided more than 5,000 people into pieces, and only took more than 500 officers and soldiers to swagger straight to Ji'an City, and the remaining 4,000 people were scattered and ambushed in the surrounding mountains and forests.

Jiang Zhiping led more than 500 people to build a raft by the river and crossed the river to the city of Ji'an.

When the Qing court officials in Ji'an City and the local Green Battalion sent people out to inquire, Jiang Zhiping asked the Qing army prisoners of the Hunan Green Camp in the Central Plains of the army to reply, and said that it was a part of the Hunan Green Battalion, which had been separated from the large army and lost its way, so they came here.

The captive soldiers had waist cards and numbers, and the Ji'an prefect and the local green battalion garrison were convinced.

Ji'an was originally a military important place, but Jin Shenghuan and Li Chengdong were "retrograde". The blatant "rebellion" betrayed the Qing court, which was so kind to them, and attempted to meet the north and the south, but because of the efforts of the famous Qing general Gao Jinku in Ji'an, the two "rebel armies" were never able to meet. Gao Jinku dragged the reinforcements of the "Wang Division" of the Qing Dynasty to quell the "rebellion" of Li Chengdong and Jin Shenghuan, and laid the foundation for the imperial court to stabilize the south.

Later, the "famous general" Gao Jinku was transferred to Qiongzhou to quell the rebellion, and was brutally killed by Wang Xinyu by torture in Qiongzhou. And Ji'an, the original military stronghold, has also lost its original military significance because the "bandit rebels" on the mainland have been purged.

At this time, Ji'an City was just an ordinary capital city. A battalion of Qing troops was stationed.

There are more than 1,000 Qing troops in the green battalion of a battalion, but because of empty salaries, there are only more than 600 people in the green battalion in Ji'an, but because Ji'an is relatively important, the officers of the green battalion are the battalion garrison, not the battalion commander.

Although the prefect and the battalion garrison believed that this was a Qing army, their fear of the guest army made them close the city gates and only let people come down for questioning.

"Go back and tell your lordship that our Hunan soldiers will not enter the city. But I got lost and wanted to come to you and ask for a little food, and we didn't want much, only two hundred stones. A thousand taels of silver can be tattooed. Jiang Zhiping asked people to tell the green battalion soldiers. Since it is a fucheng, Jiang Zhiping's offer is slightly higher.

"The villain will go back and report to the adult!"

After a short time, the people in the city came out and replied: "We in the poor and remote areas of Ji'an really can't come up with food and salary to supply the military masters. You'd better go somewhere else and ask for it! ”

Jiang Zhiping was furious, pulled out a knife and put it on the man's neck: "Do you think our Hunan soldiers are called Huazi?" Even if you call Hanako, you have to get some money out! You adults want to send us away without pulling out a dime? ”

The man was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and begged for mercy again and again: "My lord, spare your life!" The villain is just a ...... of words"

Jiang Zhiping cut off the head of the Qing soldier with a knife. The bloody tip of the knife pointed in the direction of the Ji'an city gate: "Brothers! Ji'an's dog officials deceive people too much! They don't give us food, we go in and get it ourselves! ”

The Yongxin army immediately began to attack the city, and the soldiers under the city gate slammed the city gate with wood, and the soldiers under the city threw ropes and flew up to the city, and then the soldiers began to climb the ropes to climb the city wall.

The Qing soldiers in Ji'an City did not expect that the "guest army" would move roughly, and the city gate was not blocked with heavy objects, and the door bolt was knocked open after a few hits; The Qing soldiers at the head of the city were also defenseless, watching as these "guest troops" climbed up to the city and slashed down on their heads with their knives.

"The thief rebelled! They're attacking! At this time, the Qing soldiers came to their senses, and ran at the head of the city, shouting and shouting.

"Kill!" Jiang Zhiping roared and rushed into the city with his own soldiers.

The Qing soldiers in the city reacted and took up arms to resist. But they haven't fought for many years, and they are no match for these battle-hardened veterans. In the blink of an eye, all the Qing soldiers who resisted were killed, and the Qing soldiers who did not die all knelt on the ground and surrendered.

On the other side of the river outside the city, the Yongxin soldiers who had been left in ambush in the woods also came out and rowed across the river on a raft.

The Yongning Army captured the city of Ji'an without much effort, the garrison of the Ji'an Green Battalion died in the chaos, and the prefect Li Xingyuan was captured alive by the Yongxin Army.

"If you were generous, you wouldn't end up like this today!" The knife in Jiang Zhiping's hand pointed at Li Xingyuan and sneered, "Originally, we didn't plan to attack the city, we just wanted to ask for some food, who knew that you would not pull out a dime!" This is not to blame this official! ”

"Anti-thief!" Li Xingyuan shouted, "I am an official of the imperial court, and I am a person with a yellow flag in the Han army!" The thief dares to be rude to me! If you know each other, quickly release the official and surrender to the court! This official can still keep you from dying! If you insist on going your own way, see that the court will not destroy your nine clans! ”

"Good!" Jiang Zhiping sneered and said, "I'll let you die today!" Lao Tzu is not a Tartar officer in the Green Battalion! Lao Tzu is a guerrilla general of the Ming army! Come on, pull this dog officer out and behead him! ”

Two Ming soldiers came up, pulled Li Xingyuan out, and beheaded people with a knife outside the city gate. Later, the Ming army posted a notice, declaring that they were not bandits and bandits, but the Ming official army, asking the local gentry to support the Han court, support the Ming army, and work together to contribute to the overthrow of the Tartar court.

However, Jiangxi was run by the Qing court for more than ten years, and except for a few gentry who cherished their homeland, most of the gentry did not dare to stand up. For those timid and fearful gentry, Jiang Zhiping did not kill them, but asked people to investigate those who acted for the tiger and took the initiative to do things for the Qing court.

Soon, a large number of local tyrants and shoddy gentry who took the initiative to join the Qing army and helped the Qing court to oppress the people were exposed.

Of course, Jiang Zhiping will not be polite to those gentry who take the initiative to defect to the enemy. With an order, dozens of heads rolled to the ground. These gentry who took the initiative to join the Qing court in order to save the lives of their families and worked for the Qing court did not escape justice in the end, and all their family property was confiscated.

"Fellow villagers, we don't embarrass you! It won't be long before the Qing court will know that we have captured Ji'an! In order not to disturb you, we decided to take the initiative to leave Ji'an! If you will come with us to Yongning, come with us; If you don't want to leave, just stay here! When the Tartars come, you can tell them that Ji'an has been sacked by bandits, and the bandits have fled to the mountains of Yongning! That's how you can save your lives! Jiang Zhiping said to the gentry and the people.

There is no way to give up Ji'an on his own initiative and let those people tell the Qing army where they are going. Because the Yongxin army can't hold Ji'an at all, if the troops are left to defend the city, once the Qing army breaks the city, the people in the city will inevitably be slaughtered!

In order to avoid the innocent people being slaughtered by the Qing army, the Yongxin army could only take the initiative to abandon Ji'an, and let the people of Ji'an "not have to communicate with bandits" to tell the Qing army the whereabouts of the Yongning army.

Except for a small number of ordinary people and a very small number of gentry, most of them were unwilling to leave Ji'an with the Yongxin Army for the Yongning Mountains, but chose to stay in Ji'an.

The Yongxin army left Ji'an and entered the Yonggang Mountain area of Yongxin, which was later known as the Jinggang Mountain Mountain.

When he arrived at Ninggang Mountain, Jiang Zhiping was pleasantly surprised to find that several counties around Ninggang Mountain were densely covered with paddy fields, which was convenient for the army to raise grain. The mountainous terrain is steep and densely forested, making it a natural fortress. And here is far away from the big city, the traffic is inconvenient, there are only a few narrow paths leading to the mountain, you can attack, you can retreat and defend, thousands of people and horses go to the mountain to defend, tens of thousands of troops can not attack it.

"What a great place! Our handsome man is simply a god! Jiang Zhiping sighed.

Wang Xinyu: Where am I a god? This was taught to me by a great man of later generations.

"When you get to Ninggang Mountain, change the name of it to Jinggang Mountain." Jiang Zhiping remembered Wang Xinyu's teachings before leaving, so he renamed Yonggang Mountain as Jinggang Mountain.

Yongxinying established the Jinggangshan base area, controlled the three surrounding counties, killed a group of gentry and landlords who cooperated with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, opened the county government of the Ming Dynasty, and planted a chess piece in the hinterland of the Qing court.

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